Hi
In my last story, my cutting and pasting caused some formatting problems on submission. These were not apparent to me in the submission box.
From what the mod told me, and from what I could discern from the "see edits" page, most of my paragraphs had an extra carriage return in between.
The problem may be in how I compose my stories. I prefer to compose in google docs. However, for times that I know that I either will be away from wifi, or when I need not to run down my battery as much (google docs' constant updating drains battery a lot faster), I will often copy my google doc text into a word doc and work there. When I can go back to google docs, I copy and paste from word back to google.
Most of the time, at least from my end, the text looks just fine. The paragraphs translate over seamlessly. There have been times, however, when going from word to google that all my paragraphs lose the carriage return at the end of the paragraphs, and I've had to add them by hand. (And it doesn't seem to me that I'm doing anything different at any time).
Most recently, the pasting looked just fine from *my* end, even to the point of looking fine in the submission box. But many of my paragraphs presumably had to be reformatted by the mod (gratitude for her patience!).
Any tips for tweaking my settings either in word or google for avoiding these problems?
Many thanks!
Lurker
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